{"conversationCode":"012-084","tapeNumber":12,"conversationNumber":84,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-012-084","startDateTime":"1971-10-22T19:14:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-22T19:30:00.000Z","startDate":"22-Oct-1971","startTime":"3:14 PM","endDate":"22-Oct-1971","endTime":"3:30 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Butterfield, Alexander P.; White House operator; Sanchez, Manolo;","description":"On October 22, 1971, Alexander P. Butterfield, White House operator, and Manolo Sanchez talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 3:14 pm and 3:30 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 012-084 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":2,"chronRelease":"Second Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"26-Oct-2000","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 012-084\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542\n\nDate: October 22, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 3:14 pm and 3:30 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nAlexander P. Butterfield talked with the White House operator.\n\n     The President's schedule\n          -Linwood Holton\n\nButterfield conferred with Manolo Sanchez at an unknown time between 3:14 pm and 3:30 pm.\n\n     Sanchez\n\n[End of conferral]\n\n     Progress in completing telephone call\n\n     Holton's schedule\n          -The President's schedule\n                -Butterfield's schedule","filename":["012-084.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:09:54","tapeEnd":"03:13:30","participantsList":["Butterfield, Alexander P.","White House operator","Sanchez, Manolo"],"prevCode":"012-083","nextCode":"012-085","transcript":[{"start":0.2,"end":1.72,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":1.94,"end":2.77,"text":"Yes, Mr. Butterfield."},{"start":3.65,"end":7.29,"text":"Okay, yeah, I guess when you get him, you can go ahead and put it through, and he'll take it right here."},{"start":7.9,"end":13.89,"text":"In fact, I might as well... Yeah, I'll stay on."},{"start":71.45,"end":100.65,"text":"No."},{"start":100.67,"end":100.73,"text":"No."},{"start":100.75,"end":100.81,"text":"No."},{"start":103.2,"end":103.58,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":133.36,"end":148.28,"text":"I'm just wondering how we're coming."},{"start":148.32,"end":149.04,"text":"I can't see."},{"start":149.06,"end":151.43,"text":"They're getting him up as the second secretary."},{"start":151.45,"end":151.81,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":188.14,"end":193.86,"text":"Mr. Butterfield, they're telling me he's left this number, and in two or three minutes we can reach him at another number."},{"start":195.33,"end":202.11,"text":"Okay, well what you should do, as soon as you can reach him, it's quite the sooner the better, because we're trying to get him before he goes to a press conference, and that may be where he's going."},{"start":202.61,"end":206.68,"text":"Ring me on my phone, and then I will come in and get the President's phone."},{"start":206.7,"end":211.41,"text":"We can transfer it to here, and then I'll go in the Oval Office and bring the President here."},{"start":211.43,"end":213.25,"text":"He wants to take it in his private office where I am."},{"start":213.27,"end":214.27,"text":"Yes, all right."},{"start":214.29,"end":214.67,"text":"All right?"},{"start":214.69,"end":215.23,"text":"Do it that way."},{"start":215.25,"end":215.73,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"Alexander P. Butterfield coordinates with White House operators and Manolo Sanchez to facilitate a timely telephone call between President Nixon and Virginia Governor Linwood Holton. The participants focus on tracking Holton’s current location to reach him before he attends a scheduled press conference. 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